We all have different amounts of wealth, but we all have the same
amount of time. This means we can all be equally creative and can equally
fritter our allotted span away on useless and ultimately meaningless
things.

‘When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become
oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption
in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative
imagination.’

‘It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her
course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If
the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the
more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this
similarity of results.’